Background
Boland was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Springfield Central High School in 1928.
Boland was born in Springfield, Massachusetts and graduated from Springfield Central High School in 1928.
He attended Bay Path Institute and Boston College Law School.
A Democrat, he was a representative from Massachusetts"s 2nd congressional district. Boland"s father was an Irish immigrant railroad worker He also served in the United States Army during World World War World War II Boland was elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1952.
Boland"s most famous work as a Congressman was the 1982 Boland Amendment, which blocked further funding of the Contras in Nicaragua after the Central Intelligence Agency had supervised acts of sabotage without notifying Congress.
Boland retired from the House in 1989. Boland died in 2001 at the age of 90 from natural causes.
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1939 to 1940 and was the Hampden County register of deeds from 1941 to 1952.